Credit Reports: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Why Hacker News recommends it
Referenced as a quick, entertaining overview of problems with credit reporting and scoring.
What it is
A Last Week Tonight segment on credit reports, explaining their outsized role in people's lives and how often they contain critical errors.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2016 to 2016.
What Hacker News said
Cites jrockway · 2016-04 · on “The Looting of ShapeShift”
John Oliver covered this recently. Many background check agencies won't let you run a background check on yourself. [this video]
Cites kalleboo · 2016-05 · on “HP Unveils Premium Chromebook: 3K Display, Intel Core M, 16 GB of RAM and USB-C”
Some employers will even decide who to hire based on their credit score. Bad credit = can't get a job. John Oliver did a bit on the whole credit scoring system scam [this video]
Cites codegeek · 2016-09 · on “The careless errors of credit reporting agencies”
Some steps to monitor your credit (USA): 1. Signup for [LINK] . Yes, you can argue about giving your credentials to a 3rd party company and they show you ads but credit karma sends me real time activity on my credit report FOR FREE. I get offers etc but I am happy since I can keep an eye on my credit report from all agencies. (except Experian who want you to pay them for report). 2. Get a free credit report once a year from [LINK] 3. Get your FICO score from discover [0] for free OR Open a credit card with Citi cards [1] and I think for $95/Year fee, they give you free FICO score which is the score that majority of lenders use. There are many other companies that offer FICO score for a fee b